Beth Gibbons Quotes

#1. The blackness of darkness, forever.

Beth Gibbons

#2. When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Joan Van Ark

#3. I dread no more the first white in my hair,
Or even age itself, the easy shoe,
The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:
Time, doing this to me, may alter too
My anguish, into something I can bear

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#4. I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Beth Gibbons

#5. The beasts tossed their heads and answered with evil horsey laughter.

Loretta Chase

#6. My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

Beth Gibbons

#7. Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#8. You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

Beth Gibbons

#9. There's nothing decent about what we're going to do tonight. So, let go and show me who you are."

~Raphael

Tina Folsom

#10. I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Erin Morgenstern

#11. She had asked if he was good-looking. 'No, I don't think he is,' answered Margaret, 'but he's very paintable.' 'That is an answer which has the advantage of sounding well and meaning nothing,' smiled Susie. She

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

Beth Gibbons

#13. Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

Beth Gibbons

#15. I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any ... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

Beth Gibbons

#16. Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

E. M. Forster

#17. Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

Beth Gibbons

#18. My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mac Thornberry

#19. There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Beth Gibbons

#20. The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

Beth Gibbons

#21. I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Beth Gibbons

#22. I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Beth Gibbons

#23. Julian of Norwich,

Louise Penny

#24. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#25. Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.

Beth Gibbons

#26. Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

Jodi Picoult

#27. A lot of people question my image and why I do what I do, and the answer is because this is how I want to present myself.

Beth Gibbons

#28. I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

Beth Gibbons

#29. Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.

Beth Gibbons

#30. Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?

Robin Hobb